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Falling Skies

2011 · TV Series · TV-14 · 60 min · ★ 7.1 · 74% critics

DramaActionScience Fiction

After a devastating alien invasion cripples the world, scattered survivors form small resistance groups outside the cities. As supplies run thin and danger closes in, ordinary people become citizen soldiers, protecting their community while striking back in a risky insurgency against the occupying force.

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Streaming on Netflix.

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Details
Years
2011–2015
Release date
2011-06-19
Network
TNT
Language
English
Rated
TV-14
Runtime
60 min
Max quality
HD
Critic score
74/100
TMDB rating
7.1/10 (1,324 votes)
About

You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a post-invasion survival series with a scrappy resistance and steady momentum early on, like Defiance or Revolution; Not for you if you need consistently tight plotting and minimal family melodrama.

Pros: strong early seasons; bingeable tension; likable core group | Cons: later seasons unfocused; too much family drama; ending disappoints many

Themes

  • post-apocalyptic future
  • alien
  • alien invasion

Awards & recognition

  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Special Visual Effects · 2013 · nominated
  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Special Visual Effects · 2012 · nominated

Cast & crew

Directed by Noah Wyle, Rob Lieberman, Seith Mann +20 more

Created by Robert Rodat

Episodes5 seasons · 52 episodes

Season 110 episodes
  • S1E1Live and Learn42m
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  • S1E2The Armory42m
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  • S1E3Prisoner of War41m
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  • S1E4Grace41m
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  • S1E5Silent Kill41m
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  • S1E6Sanctuary (1)41m
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  • S1E7Sanctuary (2)41m
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  • S1E8What Hides Beneath42m
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  • S1E9Mutiny41m
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  • S1E10Eight Hours39m
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Season 210 episodes
  • S2E1Worlds Apart42m
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  • S2E2Shall We Gather at the River?42m
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  • S2E3Compass42m
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  • S2E4Young Bloods41m
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  • S2E5Love and Other Acts of Courage42m
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  • S2E6Homecoming42m
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  • S2E7Molon Labe41m
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  • S2E8Death March42m
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  • S2E9The Price of Greatness42m
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  • S2E10A More Perfect Union42m
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Season 310 episodes
  • S3E1On Thin Ice42m
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  • S3E2Collateral Damage42m
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  • S3E3Badlands42m
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  • S3E4At All Costs42m
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  • S3E5Search and Recover41m
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  • S3E6Be Silent and Come Out42m
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  • S3E7The Pickett Line42m
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  • S3E8Strange Brew41m
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  • S3E9Journey to Xilbalba41m
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  • S3E10Brazil42m
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Season 412 episodes
  • S4E1Ghost in the Machine42m
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  • S4E2The Eye42m
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  • S4E3Exodus41m
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  • S4E4Evolve or Die42m
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  • S4E5Mind Wars42m
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  • S4E6Door Number Three42m
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  • S4E7Saturday Night Massacre42m
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  • S4E8A Thing With Feathers42m
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  • S4E9Till Death Do Us Part42m
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  • S4E10Drawing Straws42m
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  • S4E11Space Oddity42m
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  • S4E12Shoot the Moon41m
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Season 510 episodes
  • S5E1Find Your Warrior41m
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  • S5E2Hunger Pains42m
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  • S5E3Hatchlings41m
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  • S5E4Pope Breaks Bad42m
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  • S5E5Non-Essential Personnel42m
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  • S5E6Respite42m
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  • S5E7Everybody Has Their Reasons42m
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  • S5E8Stalag 14th Virginia42m
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  • S5E9Reunion42m
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  • S5E10Reborn46m
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